Asklemmy

I am the company IT guy. Not your IT guy.

Paint depth on cars.

If one panel has thicker paint it means it's been in a crash

The speed of the conveyor belt does not impact the cycle time. No you cannot fucking slow down the conveyor belt to make it so you can work slower. You can’t speed it up to make people work faster. The speed of the fucking conveyor belt determines how long the things stay on the fucking conveyor belt. If it’s too slow things just stack up on it

Sorry, fucking line workers, managers, and executives in a factory…

Actors don't "act"

90% of an actor's work is preparation (memorization is just a tiny part of this- a big part of it is studying the scenes and figuring out the character's realizations and decisions)

By the time you're performing, you shouldn't have to think about the scene or dialogue at all, but just connect with your scene partner and let them guide you through it. Acting isn't about you. You're not important, it's about the moment that's in between you and the people you're performing with.

I can't "blow up" an image you screenshotted from a video your sister posted on facebook and make it look any better then a pile of angry pixel garbage. I can, however, remove the pause icon from your garbage picture.

That adding an exclamation mark to your password doesn’t make it secure, GREG!

The scientific method

A thicker, wider bicycle seat is going to be more uncomfortable on longer rides than a thinner, narrower bicycle seat.

Weirdly enough, that not all newspapers are the same company.

I work for a free weekly newspaper. We get calls frequently from people who want to subscribe or cancel subscriptions to other papers. This means they have to actively be looking in the entirely wrong place. The correct phone number for subscription services is IN those other papers or on their website.

We also get calls from people asking us to put their event or news in our paper, oh and “can you also put it in these three other papers?” (Three competitors who are entirely seperate companies).

Even weirder is people who try to request songs on the radio by calling us. We are not, in fact, a radio station…

Factors of safety are defined to deal with the probability of things going wrong in a manner that is acceptable to society based on a body of knowledge and experimentation. You can't just define your own.

Also, just because something is designed for a specific load doesn't mean it will fail at that load.

What you're taught in school is not the whole picture. Doesn't matter if it's maths, history, french or even a master's degree. After you finish school, there's still a shitload to learn. A curriculum is always a finite amount, so you have to make concessions. What makes it into the curriculum and what not is sometimes obviou or mandatory, but other times it's purely based on personal preferences or even internal politics.